– House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va,) were not among the 72 House Republicans who signed a letter to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction–the so-called “Supercommittee”–asking the committee not to call for increasing taxes. Give our Congressman Flores a big “thumbs-up” for signing this letter. (Read More)

Interest group in town is vying for the attention of the super committee members except the very movement that drove the federal deficit to the top of Congress’ agenda.

Tea party leaders can be found this fall hawking a Constitution-themed coloring book, riding a tour bus across the country and endorsing 2012 candidates — but not issuing policy proposals for cutting the deficit.(Read More)

We are being taxed to support an enormous government while citizens
of 39 states have no representation at all in these critical decisions
about its size and scope.
Our map shows what the United
States would look like based on the makeup of the Super Committee. Most
Americans aren’t on this map at all. The whole state of New York is lost
in the crease between Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. The middle and
southern states are missing almost completely. The thin line below South
Carolina is where Florida and my home state, Georgia, should be. Texas
and California combined have the same representation as Michigan. (Read More)